I need help :-(

[Lost Esper]

I want to be a white mage, but i don't know if i should sub a white mage, and be a summoner to start, or start as a white mage and sub summoner. I don't know what benifits each hold as mains. A healers only attacking spell is Holy, right? Do i only get that if I have White M. as a main? As for the summoners...are they attacking creatures, or all support. BEcuase i want to use amazing beasts...but i bet that only happens if i have a main summoner. Please help me out . ^_^

[Otaku~gamer]

Ok, first off if you want to be summoner/whm or whm/summoner your going to HAVE to start off as WHM (or another job). Summoner is an advance job that could only be usable after doing a quest at lvl 30, you can't start off with it.

Once you hit 30.. do the quest and are able to become a summoner. I would highly advise you not to sub Summoner if your main is WHM.. you should sub BLM. Their arsonal is much better than subbing SUM. Only thing you get with /SUM is creatures that are half your lvl that die very quickly.

SUM/WHM is different. Your able to fall into the role of support healer if your pt needs help in that department. God knows you'll have the MP to back them up. Your summons can be in full lvl as well.

[Zel]

Sorry to be blunt but to confirm Otaku's reply, you have to start out as a white mage; you can't get the summoner job until you get to level 30 regardless.

I'm not a summoner (I do plan to be one in the NA release version), but the nice thing is that I've seen a Carbuncle fight, so you have the best of both worlds (offense and defense), although your MP gets drained the longer your summon is running around.

Also, reading many of the posts on this site you can only summon Carbuncle in the begining and some elementals until you are strong enough and have enough fame to get the rest of the summon creatures which is recommended that you be in a party of level 60 players when you fight them (yes, you have to fight them like in FFXIII and apparently they are tough as hell).

I plan to do the same when FFXI comes out, but I plan to start as a WHM/BLM (just as Otaku had mention) then be a SUM/WHM after I'm able to get most if not all the summon creatures (no fun with only one).

Using Holy or Banish is a waste of time to me anyway (I have subbed WHM) since it takes so long to cast and cost more MP than it's worth. It would be better to allocate MP to healing and enhancing spells at best. If you would like to get into the fray, you might want to be something more sturdier than a Tarutaru. I've been in parties with Hume WHMs and they work out fine.

Hope that helps.

[Keji]

ummm subbing sum is not bad...it gives you a lot more mp and u get auto-refresh. subbing blm u get less mp but u get some spells that might be usefull. The others spells would just be weak for your level.